This is an analysis of the poem A Good Soldier that begins with:
He writes to us most every day, and how his letters thrill us!
I can't describe the joys with which his quaint expressions fill us....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddaadd ccXXbb ddeeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110011101011 110101010101011 110101010100010 110100010101010 111001011101010 111101011101010 111111010101010 111111011101110 110101010101111 111111011101111 110101111001010 111101111111010 110001010101010 110111001101010 110101011111111 110101011001011 1111110011100111 1111010101000001 110101011101110 110001011100010 111101011101010 111101011100010 010100011100110 1101011111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, to, us, like, i'm are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us, one are repeated).
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